Incentivise landlords who need to sell to keep their properties in the private rented sector • The panel recommends that private landlords who need to sell their properties should be incentivised to keep their properties in the private rented sector. • To that end, there should be more incentives for buy to let mortgages as opposed to buying as a second property. • The panel also recommends that there should be incentives for landlords to sell with a sitting tenant in place and at the same time, tenants should have a right to stay in a property after a change of landlord. • The panel recommends that the tax system could be used to provide incentives for landlords to buy existing let properties with tenants in place, eg changes to LBTT tax or work with local authorities in using acquisition fund money to purchase properties.